Expertise

The performance implications of interfirm networks creating innovative and other firm-level capabilities in global electronic markets and in geographical clusters

The antecedents and consequences of trust in organization and in interfirm exchange

Cross-level issues in time scales, trust, and networks

Dynamics of social structure

Strategic decision making in uncertain business environments

Aks Zaheer received his PhD in strategic management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Master's in Business from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad. His current research is in the antecedents and consequences of trust in organizations and in interfirm exchange, strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions, and the dynamics of social structure in organizations, among others. He has published in many journals, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Academy of Management Journal. He is an elected Fellow of the Strategic Management Society. He was named the Outstanding Core Teacher of the Year for the Full-Time MBA Program in 1995, 2005, 2009, 2010, and 2011; and received the Curtis Cup Outstanding Teacher Award in 2006 for Executive MBA teaching, Excellence in Teaching Awards for 2004, 2009, 2012 and 2014, commended for teaching excellence in Business Week's guide to the 50 Top Business Schools in 1997 and named one of the World's 50 Best B-School Professors by Poets and Quants in 2012.